Let this be a reminder that, as noted last week, repentance is not a one-shot deal. Repentance is a process and a journey, in many cases fraught with unexpected setbacks and crazy detours. Our churches have to be communities where this process can happen in real time, in real life, even if it is imperfect, even if it involves lots of setbacks and lots of crazy detours. Where people are at all sorts of different stages in the journey from “And that is what some of you were” to “But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified…” and are free to talk about it openly, even if only with a few close and trusted friends. As a resurrection people who follow a resurrected Savior, we have to believe that repentance and spiritual transformation can happen in our midst. That there is no sin, and no sinner, who cannot be reached by the Gospel of Jesus Christ.